Means for arranging oval cigarettes



1932. B. A. E JOHNSON ET AL 1,888,386

MEANS FOR ARRANGING OVAL CIGARETTES Filed May 6, 1931 2 Sheets-Sheet l Nov- 22, 1932- B. A. E. JOHNSON ET AL 1,388,386

MEANS FOR ARRANGING OVAL CIGARETTES Filed Marv 6, 1951 2 Sheets-Sheet 2 7ahnsan ig ewnes WM 20 and consequently can not be turned round .25 chambers a relative movement 1s effected.

. 40 effected for instance by means of strips 6 of Patented Nov. 22, 1932 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE BROR ANDERS EMIL JOHNSON AND GUSTAF ORSTROM, OF ALS'IEN, SWEDEN, ASSIGNORS TO AKTIEBOLAGET GERH. AREHN S MEKANISKA VERKSTAD, OF STOGKI-IOLM,

SWEDEN, A CORPORATION OF SWEDEN MEANS FOR ARRANGING OVAL GIGARE'ITES Application filed May 6, 1931, Serial No. 535,518, and. in Germany May 9, 1930.

In the packing of oval cigarettes and similar staff-shaped articles in boxes the cigarettes generally are so placed, that they incline in the same direction and consequently partially cover one another. Owing to this arrangement the cigarettes requiresmaller space and the packages become neat. The present invention relates to a device in machines for packing oval cigarettes and similar staff-shaped articles, by means of which the cigarettes of a group to be introduced magazine 1 from which they descend into pari ferred to the chambers of the slide by means into the boX, are subjected to such a correction regarding their inclined position that they will be placed in the box in the right position. The main features of the device consist therein that the cigarettes of the said group are placed in chambers or partitions, one in each chamber, the width of which is so adapted that the cigarettes are compelled to occupy an inclined position in the chamber but be caused to change its inclined position in one direction to an inclined position in opposite direction through the actuation of one or more members, between which and the Fig. 1 in the accompanying drawings shows diagrammatically and in a front view a form of execution of the invention. Fig. 2 is a cross-section on the line AB in Fig. 1. Figs. 3 and 4 show two other forms of execution of the invention. Figs. 5 and 6 are an end view and a plan view respectively of the device shown in Fig. 4.

The cigarettes a, Fig. 1, are placed in a titions 2, eflected by means of plates 3. A slide 5 is movable on a bar 4 located in the front of the partitions 2, the said slide being provided on its top side with chambers 7,

sheet metal mounted in the slide. In one position of the slide the said chambers are located opposite to the partitions 2, so that the lowermost row of cigarettes may be transof a piston 8 divided into fingers, while the next superposed cigarettes in the partitions are retained by a bar 9. Slide 5 is reciprocated on the bar 4 by a lever arm 10, which is acted upon by a spring 25 and a cam disc 26 on the driving shaft 27 of the machine and is connected to the slide by a link 11. The bar 4 is provided with flanges 12 on its top-side. The bottom of the chambers 6 is located somewhat below the top-side of the said flanges, so that the cigarettes located in the chambers rest upon the flanges, as perceived fromFig. 2; The said flanges are wave-shaped for a part of their length. The width of the partitions 2 and the chambers 7 is so adapted, that the cigarettes are compelled to occupy an in? clined position. For that reason the cigarettes in the chambers 7 can not be turned round but their inclined position may be changed. While the slide is moved toward the right, Fig. 1, the cigarettes in the chambers 7 are subjected to a resistance efiected by wave-shaped projections of the flanges 12, which results in the cigarettes, inclining toward the left being caused to occupy an inclined position toward the right, while cigarettes which already incline toward the right remain in this position, so that, consequently, all cigarettes of the group occupy the same inclined position at the end of. the movement of the slide. In order to accelerate the. correction of the position of the cigarettes, the bar 4 may be slidably mounted and moved toward the left, while the slide is moved toward the right. The corrected cigarettes are moved by a piston preferably into a compressor chamber, in which the cigarettes are forced toward each other to a compact row which then is transferred into the boX.

In the form of execution of the invention shown in Fig. .3 a belt 13, ribbon or the like is substituted for the bar 4, said belt passing around rollers 12. The slide 14 provided with the chambers 15 is movable in a guide (not shown andthe cigarettes contained by thechambers rest upon thetop part of the belt 13.

After the cigarettes have been transferred from the partitions 16 into the chambers 15, the slide 14 is moved toward the right. At the same time the belt 13' is run in the direc tion indicated by the arrow. During this operation the same turning of the cigarettes is effected as in the device shown in Figs.

1 and 2, so that all cigarettes of the group will incline toward the right, as illustrated by dotted lines. Owing to the face that the slide and the support for the cigarettes are moved in opposite directions, the correction ofthe position of the cigarettes is effected very rapidly, so that it is not necessary to move the slide through any longer distance for, the eflecting of the correction. The ci arettes, evidently, will be turned into the same direction even if the slide is stationary and only the belt is moved. The transferring of the cigarettes from the chambers into the compressor chamber may then be effected by the same piston which moved the cigarettes from the distribution partitions 16 inithe chambers 15.

ccording to the form of execution shown in Figs. 4 to 6 inclusive the turning of the c' arettes is effected by two belts 19 and 20, ri bons or the like passing round rollers 17 and 18 respectively. The cigarettes are transferred by a piston 21 from the distribution partitions 22 to chambers 23, provided on a stationary table 24, in which a slot for the upper part of the belt 20 is made, by which the cigarettes in the chambers are supported. The lower part of the belt 19 bears against the top side of the cigarettes. After the cigarettes have been transferred from. the distribution partitions 22 to the chambers 23 and the belts 19 and 20 are put into motion, both belts, evidently, effect a turning action on the cigarettes inclined toward the left, so that these cigarettes are compelled to occupy the same inclined position as the other cigarettes. Also in this case a rapid turning of the cigarettes is effected, which then may be ejected from the chambejrs 23.

The invention may, evidently be carried out in many other ways than the above stated onl as examples.

9 claim:

In a machine for packing oval cigarettes and similar staff-shaped articles a device for bringing the cigarettes into the same inclined position before their introducing into a box or the like, said device comprising a number of chambers each adapted to contain only one cigarette and so arranged, that the cigarette ma not be turned round in the chamber but only occupy one or the other of two symmetrical inclined positions in the same,-and a member in contact with the cigarettes, so thatat a'relative movement between the chamber and the said member transversely of the cigarette the cigarette is brought into a dis- 'tinct inclined position.

'2. In a machine forpacking oval cigarettes and similar staff-shaped articles a device for bringing the cigarettes into the same inclined position before their introducing into a box orthelike, said device comprising a number 'Of chambers, which are open at their upper side and to their full breadth and each are adapted to contain only one cigarette, the said chambers being so arranged that the cigarette may not be turned round in the chamher but onl occupy one or the other of two symmetrica inclined positions in the same and a member in contact with the lower side of the cigarette, so that at a relative movement between chamber and the said member transversely of the cigarette the cigarette is brought into a distinct inclined position.

3. A form of execution of the device stated in claim 1 characterized by the fact that the chambers are located on a member, sustaining the cigarettes in the chambers by a friction surface, the said chambers and member being movable relatively to one another transversely of the chambers.

4. A form of execution of the device stated in claim 1 characterized by the fact that the chambers are located on a member sustaining the cigarettes in the chambers during the turning operation by ribs extending longitudinally of the member, the said chambers and member being movable relatively to one another transversely ofthe chambers.

I In testimony whereof we have hereunto aflixed our si 'a'tures.

BROR ANDERS EMIL JOHNSON.

GUSTAF oRsTRoM. 

